Axios: “Yes, but: 61% of teleworkers are working from home because they’re choosing to, per a new Pew Research study. Just 38% are home because their workplaces are closed or unavailable.”
Wall Street Journal: “When you do it right, it improves retention. The most successful distributed companies have much, much lower churn than other companies. Our voluntary rate of churn was 7.6% over the past year. That’s during the Great Resignation, lower than our peers. And the biggest hidden cost of productivity in most businesses right now is attrition.” - Matt Mullenweg
At WillowTree we had a very strong everyone in the office culture. The pandemic changed that. Over the last couple years it became obvious a fairly substantial number of folks wanted to continue working remote, even after the pandemic (if that ever happens).
Our leadership at WillowTree is pretty amazing. They listened. Now we have a full group of folks working remotely.
I’ve been a remote worker off and on for well over 20 years. I love it, much to the chagrin of my wife. I’m now a part of the work from anywhere team at WillowTree.
We’ve also started hiring folks for remote first positions. Our team has people in California, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Florida, and Ohio to name a few. It’s nice because it’s allowed us to focus on hiring really great people without convincing them to move to Charlottesville, Durham, or Columbus.
So, if you’re looking for an iOS, Android, or Web gig, give WillowTree a look. You may find the company, and job, of your dreams.
I love this place and hope to make it my final work home, if they’ll have me. 😃